1st Graders Battle it Out at GMS


The library is holding its annual library card sign-up contest between the first grade classes at Griffin Memorial School. Library card applications will be sent home with each child, and at the end of the month, the class with the most library card holders, both old and new, will win a special story time with Children’s Librarian Carrie-Anne Pace, a slice of pizza at Papa Gino's, and a coupon to the school store.

For information on how you can get a library card, call us at 424-4044, or send an email.

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Fall Story Time Begins Sept. 30th


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Mark your calendars. Story Time for children ages 3 - Kindergarten begins on September 30th. Join us on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays at 10:30am for stories, songs, and lots of fun! Story time will run through November 19th, with the exception of October 14th & 15th (even librarians take vacations). NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY. Just drop on by!

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An Apple a Day Make 'n Take


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Children can stop by the library for our September Make 'n Take, An Apple a Day, the week of September 16th. Make it here or take it with you for some crafting fun at home!

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All Booked Up Reads Last Days of Summer for October


book coverSteve Kluger's Last Days of Summer will be discussed at the October 1st meeting of All Booked Up.

"Mixing nostalgia, baseball and a boy's mostly epistolary friendship with a 1940s baseball star, this inventive but sentimental novel consists entirely of letters, fictional newspaper clippings, telegrams, war dispatches, report cards and other documentary fragments. Growing up Jewish in a tough, Italian Brooklyn neighborhood, Joey Margolis is troubled by anti-Semitic neighbors, by Hitler's rising power, by his parents' divorce and by his absent cad of a father. Craving a surrogate dad, Joey strikes up a correspondence with Wisconsin-born New York Giants slugger Charlie Banks. The boy's outrageous fibs, tough-guy posturing and desperate pleas grab the reluctant attention of the superstar, whose racy vernacular guy-talk (peppered with amusing misspellings and misusages) hints at his deepening affection for Joey. Charlie is a politically enlightened proletarian ballplayer with a heart of gold. His liberal views find an echo in Joey, whose best friend, Japanese-American Craig Nakamura, gets shipped off with his family to a wartime internment camp. In a plot that swerves from Joey's Bar Mitzvah to a White House meeting with President Roosevelt to a tearjerking climax, Kluger keeps changing the pace and piles on a slew of period references with a heavy hand. Despite these flaws, this debut novel is at its best a poignant, golden evocation of one boy's lost innocence." (From Publishers Weekly, June 2008)

Pick up your copy at the Circulation Desk and join the group at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1st.

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Get Downloadable Audiobooks Free!


Browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn some titles onto CDs for your enjoyment anywhere, anytime!

It's so easy to do! All you need is a computer with an internet connection, and your 14-digit library card number. Then go to New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Books, install free software to your computer, check out a book, and download it to your computer.

From there, you decide how you want to access the digital book: your computer, a compatible MP3 player, or CD. Over 2,100 titles are currently available in fiction and non-fiction for all ages, so why not give it a try?

Please note: This service is available to New Hampshire residents only. Due to user authentication issues, New Hampshire Downloadable Audiobooks are not available in the MP3 format used by Apple devices at this time.

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If It's September, It Must Be Library Card Sign Up Month!


library card sign up month logoIt is indeed September, and it is Library Card Sign-up Month. Make sure the children you hold near and dear are among the two-thirds of Americans that carry the smartest card of all – a library card!

Why? Because studies show that children who read or are read to in the home, and who use the library, perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learning. Are you surprised? With a library card, children can get homework help, check out books, borrow DVDs, pick up crafts to go, and attend special programs - all of which make after school life a little more fun.

Add a library card to your child's school supply list, and urge your family and friends to do the same. It's probably the only school supply you'll get for free!

For more information on getting a library card, stop in for a visit, call us at 424-4044, or simply send us an email.

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Book of the Month Club Features The Hummingbird's Daughter in September


book coverSeptember's featured novel is The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk upstairs.

"Her powers were growing now, like her body. No one knew where the strange things came from. Some said they sprang up in her after the desert sojourn with Huila. Some said they came from somewhere else, some deep inner landscape no one could touch. That they had been there all along." Teresita, the real-life "Saint of Cabora," was born in 1873 to a 14-year-old Indian girl impregnated by a prosperous rancher near the Mexico-Arizona border. Raised in dire poverty by an abusive aunt, the little girl still learned music and horsemanship and even to read: she was a "chosen child," showing such remarkable healing powers that the ranch's medicine woman took her as an apprentice, and the rancher, Don Tom s Urrea, took her-barefoot and dirty-into his own household. At 16, Teresita was raped, lapsed into a coma and apparently died. At her wake, though, she sat up in her coffin and declared that it was not for her. Pilgrims came to her by the thousands, even as the Catholic Church denounced her as a heretic; she was also accused of fomenting an Indian uprising against Mexico and, at 19, sentenced to be shot. From this already tumultuous tale of his great-aunt Teresa, American Book Award-winner Urrea (The Devil's Highway) fashions an astonishing novel set against the guerrilla violence of post-Civil War southwestern border disputes and incipient revolution. His brilliant prose is saturated with the cadences and insights of Latin-American magical realism and tempered by his exacting reporter's eye and extensive historical investigation. The book is wildly romantic, sweeping in its effect, employing the techniques of Catholic hagiography, Western fairy tale, Indian legend and everyday family folklore against the gritty historical realities of war, poverty, prejudice, lawlessness, torture and genocide. Urrea effortlessly links Teresita's supernatural calling to the turmoil of the times, concealing substantial intellectual content behind effervescent storytelling and considerable humor." (From Publishers Weekly Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. (May 17) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.)

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